Position​/PostingTitle Engineering Technical Specialist

Job Title: Engineering Technical Specialist

Location: Arnold AFB, Tennessee

Job Family Code: O-Engineering

Function/Branch: Engineering / Engineering Functional Management

Directorate: Engineering and Tech Support

Position Type: Regular, Full-Time

Pay Type: Exempt

Grade: L06 (OA0618) – L07 (OA0717)

Salary Range or Starting Hourly Rate: L06: $70,000 - $92,000; L07: $80,500 - $107,500/ per year

The Mission

At Beyond New Horizons (BNH), we seek skilled technical professionals to join our team at Arnold Air Force Base, where you will help operate, maintain, and improve the critical infrastructure that makes groundbreaking ground testing possible. You will work with powerful and complex systems, including large electric motors, compressors, industrial control systems, instrumentation, and data-acquisition equipment.

While AEDC does not design the systems being tested, our teams create and sustain the extreme test conditions those test articles must endure. Your work will help ensure test systems are safe, reliable, maintainable, and ready to provide customers with the data needed to validate aerospace system performance and flight worthiness.

Open to external candidates

A Role with Dynamic Responsibilities

This is a technical role within a systems-management-driven team. You will contribute across the lifecycle of facility and test-support systems—from supporting requirements development and field assessments to assisting with troubleshooting equipment, developing maintenance procedures, and documenting system configuration.

One day, you may support equipment inspections and technical data reviews; the next, help investigate equipment malfunction and coordinate corrective actions with engineering, operations, and craft personnel. We are seeking a versatile, proactive engineering technologist who enjoys solving practical problems in an industrial and test operations environment.

Job Duties:

• Apply sound technical practices, established procedures, and practical problem-solving skills to support safe, reliability, and effective operation of facility and test-support systems.
• Support engineers and project teams in the preparation, interpretation, review, and maintenance of technical documentation, including drawings, specifications, equipment data sheets, work packages, procedures, calculations, and reports.
• Conduct field walkdowns, equipment inspections, and condition assessments to verify system configuration, identify discrepancies, and support maintenance or modification planning.
• Assist with installation, startup, checkout, troubleshooting, and operational readiness activities for mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, and data-acquisition systems.
• Collect, organize, and analyze equipment-performance, maintenance, and operational data to identify trends, support reliability improvements, and document technical findings.
• Develop or revise maintenance procedures, operating instructions, inspection checklists, equipment records, and other technical work products under established engineering processes and supervisory direction.
• Support procurement and project execution activities by assisting with material identification, equipment evaluations, technical data reviews, cost estimates, field verification, and coordination with vendors or craft personnel.
• Participate in anomaly investigations, troubleshooting efforts, and causal-analysis activities by gathering facts, reviewing available data, documenting findings, and supporting development of corrective actions.
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, maintenance, project management, safety, and craft workforce personnel to support system readiness and planned maintenance activities.
• Communicate technical information, equipment status,…